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Money Smart: Illegal Immigrants and Tax Refunds
KTLA) ^ | 8:33 a.m. PDT, June 13, 2012

Posted on 06/13/2012 4:07:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A new report reveals millions of illegal immigrants are getting billions of dollars in IRS refunds, leaving many Californians asking how, why and is it true?

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in the 2010 tax year alone, undocumented workers received over $4 billion from the U.S. government.

As it turns out, a valid social security number isn't needed to apply for an IRS refund.

"If you don't have papers in this country and you are working, you can apply for an ITIN number and then you file taxes," Luis Salazar, of Salazar Tax Services explains.

"If you quality for a refund, you can get money back," Salazar says.

Since illegal immigrants can't qualify for legitimate social security numbers, back in 1996 the U.S. Treasury introduced the Individual Tax Identification Number, or ITIN.

Salazar says he sees thousands of U.S. dollars returned to his clients who are from out of the country.

"You can claim your daughter, you can claim your son, you can claim your grandfather, grandmother," he explains.

"You can claim your mother, you can claim your father, you can claim nephews and nieces. Almost everybody besides cousins."

And that's how the money is banked -- all through the Additional Child Tax Credit, which grants families $1,000 per dependent.

That's also where the scam can come in.

The people who you claim should be living in the U.S. with you, but Salazar says that some undocumented workers claim family members living across the border.

Unscrupulous tax preparers are filing fraudulent returns getting ITIN clients thousands of dollars.

One report found an undocumented worker claimed 20 relatives as dependents under a fake address and took the government for a grand total of $29,000.

Salazar Tax Services insists that every claim they file is above the board.

But they also say that not everyone chooses to be money smart over greed.

"I give you the option, like it's not correct, but if you want to claim it's up to you becasue you're the person in charge of your taxes because you're signing it," Salazar says.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: dhs; doj; heartless; illegalaliens; irs

1 posted on 06/13/2012 4:07:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

We’ve created a system that normalizes the concept of a negative income tax, and then we’re surprised when people take advantage of it.


2 posted on 06/13/2012 4:10:37 PM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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To: andyk

They have a right to that money. Doncha know. All of you racists out there keep your mouths shut. /s


3 posted on 06/13/2012 4:20:20 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: forgotten man

Implement AZ SB1070 Nation wide.


4 posted on 06/13/2012 4:25:04 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqpc7c_millions-of-illegal-immigrants-are-getting-bigger-tax-refunds-than-you-are_news


5 posted on 06/13/2012 4:29:31 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: BenLurkin
Since illegal immigrants can't qualify for legitimate social security numbers, back in 1996 the U.S. Treasury introduced the Individual Tax Identification Number,

Hmmm. Clinton administration. The buying of illegal votes.

The Democrat Party: The party whose chief aim is the increase of social, moral, judicial, fiscal, and monetary entropy.

6 posted on 06/13/2012 4:35:18 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: AuntB; Tennessee Nana; Clintonfatigued; Grampa Dave; Condor51; stephenjohnbanker; TADSLOS; ...
Unscrupulous tax preparers are filing fraudulent returns for illegals. One illegal claimed 20 relatives as dependents under a fake address and took the US government for a grand total of $29,000 (and that's just under a single identity).

Salazar Tax Services insists that every claim they file is above board. "I give you the option, like it's not correct, but if you want to claim it's up to you because you're the person in charge of your taxes because you're signing it," Salazar says.

Luis Salazar---and all his clients filing fraudulent returns----need to be nailed in connection with this scam.

Luis Salazar of Salazar Tax Services insists that every claim his firm files is above board. "I give you the option, like it's not correct, but if you want to claim it's up to you because you're the person in charge of your taxes because you're signing it," Salazar claims.

NOT SO FAST LUIS Every tax preparer is legally compelled to sign every IRS return, as well. If Salazar falsified the tax preparer's IRS entry---he is in legal hot water.

FBI TIPS PAGE https://tips.fbi.gov

This article also fails to mention that most illegals maintain multiple identities----and that they probably filed false claims for EITC under each identity.

7 posted on 06/13/2012 4:48:48 PM PDT by Liz
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REFERENCE The phony "just here for a better life" crowd who freely violate our borders and "do the jobs Americans won't do" have more criminal enterprises than you can shake a stick at.

<><>ICE's "documents and benefits fraud task force" found a common practice among "impoverished" illegals is to buy several faked identities for several thousand dollars each----the illegal then votes and rides the US gravy train under several names.

<><> Jose Madrigal---the Washington state rapist---had some 30 identities. And probably voted and collected US benefits under every single identity.

<><>June 26, 2010 An illegal using multiple identities was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation. Manuel Mejia Ordonez, got eight years for conspiracy to commit mail fraud........and identity theft.

<><> Hilderberto Salinas sold state drivers' licenses issued out of the state’s Motor Vehicle Agency in NJ to illegals with multiple identities who did not have the necessary id's....among 40 people who participated in the widespread ring. "Impoverished" illegals paid $2,500 to $7,000 apiece for the licenses.

<><> July 21, 2006----NJ BERGEN RECORD---Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, NJ L/E authorities said. The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses----for any state in the US------ passports and resident alien cards, said state police.

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout.

After a search, police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to "impoverished illegals." Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 phony Social Security cards. ####

<><> US Dept of the Treasury Says Illegal Aliens Collecting Billions in Tax Credits According to the US Dept of Treasury’s Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the pay outs totaled $924 million. This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit. $20 billion EITC is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals. Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities-----falsifying official apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands.

REFERENCE March 8, 2012 KENNER, La. -- Kenner police arrested illegal Marvin Baca who sold false W-2 forms to another illegal immigrant for $1,500. Baca sold fraudulent W-2 forms for $1,500 to other Hispanics here illegally.

Police said that on one of the forged W-2 forms had a SS no of a person living in Virginia. Police said illegal Hispanics purchase fictitious W-2 forms and file false tax returns with the government to receive EITC refunds. Baca was charged with one count of ID theft and two counts of forgery.

8 posted on 06/13/2012 4:52:00 PM PDT by Liz
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To: BenLurkin
Civil War II on the way. We have a totally defunct Government and not worth keeping.
9 posted on 06/13/2012 4:55:23 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: BenLurkin
Just a couple of days ago, I learned from an IRS "Enrolled Agent" That if an illegal alien without an ITIN (or maybe even with one) who hijacks your Social Security number to do what they are inclined to do, it is up to you to unwrap yourself from around the government axle.

Why should they go after the criminal when you're a handier target? And easier to intimidate? I you don't take the initiative, there are penalties!

Reminds me of an old Ziggy cartoon. He's reading a letter from the IRS : "We cannot locate the return you have sent us. We have lost it.
If it is not found within 30 days, you are subject to $2000 fine and 5 years in jail..."

When it first appeared, many years ago, that cartoon was a joke.

10 posted on 06/13/2012 5:20:35 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: BenLurkin
One report found an undocumented worker claimed 20 relatives as dependents under a fake address and took the government for a grand total of $29,000.

A return filing MFJ with 20 dependents and an AGI of $129,000 will get a refund of $19,000. That's as good as it gets with 20 dependents.

It's legal, though.

11 posted on 06/13/2012 5:22:29 PM PDT by Boojum
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To: BenLurkin

I remember working with a guy here on a visa from Mexico, he was trying to become a U.S. citizen, great guy, I hope he became a citizen, he had a great heart! He was networked with a lot of friends and family due to common nationality and language. He would tell me how when he filed his taxes, they asked him if he had any kids, he said no, the tax guy asked him flat out if he wanted some. He told me how women would get pregnant by multiple men, so as to collect welfare. He had a friend in the border patrol tell him how they keep a lot of what they confiscate. He also said how drug dealers would pay people to steal there cars and transport the drugs between cities, then they would collect insurance money, or give the courier the car as payment. So much more, but there isn’t a problem, oh no, the Republicans and Democrats don’t give a damn about this country, they are in it for themselves and whom can network with so as to attain more wealth and power for their family and friends, I hope they choke on their material wealth, what good will it do them when they are dead! Sad, how the ones like my friend who avoided the schemes, worked hard on a visa, payed taxes only to end up struggling to become a citizen the legal way, I hope he is, those are the ones we need, and not the ones whom take advantage nor the politicians who don’t give a damn.


12 posted on 06/13/2012 5:41:51 PM PDT by IslamE (epiphany)
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